Get together for lunch to discuss what it is exhibitions can do.

Open to all, this series of Ragged University Events invites you to come to Talbot Rice Gallery for a late lunch and to discuss Rob Kennedy’s acts of display.

Taking lead from the exhibition, these informal group conversations aim to move away from fixed, scripted explanations of what artworks are ‘about’ to a participant-led exploration of what it is like to experience the exhibition space: this one including precarious leaning walls, a huge cherry tree growing through a pile of heaped wreckage, enigmatic texts, LED lights, broken TV screens and new video piece.

Supported by Alex Dunedin from the Ragged University, the artist Rob Kennedy and curator James Clegg, everyone will be encouraged to share opinions and be active and creative in interpreting or reinterpreting acts of dis play. The results will be improvised, spontaneous and evolve in response to whoever comes along, meaning it is different every time. Sandwiches, tea and coffee will be provided to keep everybody going.

We encourage everyone to bring along things used to make sense of the world. If you’re a musician, bring along your instrument; if you’re an artist bring along your sketchbook; if you use post-it notes or certain kinds of memory aid or have a book you like to quote from, bring it along (Our only ask if that you don’t bring liquids or anything that might damage the works on display!)

The Ragged University is where people come together to share their knowledge and skills in social spaces like pubs, cafes and libraries. Inspired by the Ragged Schools movement, we seek to communicate what we have invested our time in so to enrich each others lives.

Having run since 2010, collectively as a group of individuals, we have put on hundreds of events covering many different subject areas and art forms. Come along, try it out - it is free, it belongs to you, it is about learning something new and sharing what makes you tick.

Please check out the website for a deeper insight into the project. We are trying to grow as a collective and as people interested in other people. Behind the public events lies long range research into how we can develop free and open education possibilities, and research contributions to academic areas

Drop us an email or come along to a talk or event, write an article or be involved in research... Good things come of it :) www.raggeduniversity.co.uk